The Prophesied

Prologue

Monarchear lay on her side in the LarkClan nursery, her three beautiful kits curled up together sleeping, there was a soft meow at the entrance of the nursery, Monarchear looked up to see Gorsefoot, her mate, "Sheepstar wants to speak with you outside," he said, Monarchear stood up and walked out of the nursery, glancing at her kits before turning to face Sheepstar, Sheepstar opened her mouth to speak, "Monarchear--" then there was a loud crash from inside the nursery, she let out a sharp inhale at the realization, "My kits!!" Monarchear whipped around and bolted back into the nursery, hearing but ignoring her mates and leaders yowls at her to stop and slow down. She skidded to a stop to see part of the nursery wall broken down, and only two of her kits lay in the nest, awake and crying out with fear, where was the third kit? Gorsefoot and Sheetstar ran in to see what had happened, Sheepstar snarled as she noticed one of the kits were missing, "Darkclaw come here! We have a fox to catch!" then Gorsefoot and Sheepstar ran out through the broken wall with Darkclaw close on their heels.

Monarchear chased after them. While running through the forest she stopped to catch her breath, she looked up to see through the fog the shape of a fox bent down to drop something then pick it up again by the scruff and bound away from the three cats, Monarchear ran over to where the fox had stopped, while the cats chased the fox, there was a small cave where the fox had ran away from, Monarchear bent down to find a bundle of fur that looked similar to her kit, it was her kit!

She picked him up by the scruff and ran back to the LarkClan camp.

She trotted into the nursery and pulled her moss nest away from the hole in the wall, and curled around her three kits, the sent of fox still partly lingered in the air, she put her nose to her kits fur, the she-cats were perfectly fine, but when she smelled the small tomkits fur she jolted back, this was a fox! She'd accidentally taken in a foxes pup! Monarchear pulled the pup close to her so she could groom his fur, then she decided that she would take care of this pup. Monarchear and the fox must have gotten the two confused, her kit had looked similar to a fox, so nobody would notice, she hoped.

Then Monarchear decided what she would name her kits, then soon Gorsefoot and Sheepstar walked in, their heads down, "We're sorry Monarchear, we couldn't save your kit," Sheepstar said, "Oh, he's right here, safe and sound, the fox picked up her pup and left my kit behind so I took him back," Monarchear explained, "Really!" Gorsefoot yelped, he bounded over and crouched down to sniff the tomkit, lucky Monarchear had groomed the tomkit until you couldn't smell fox on him anymore.

"What have you named our kits?" Gorsefoot asked, Monarchear smiled, "Yes, the brown and white girl is Cloverkit, the pale orange girl is Firekit, and the tomkit is Thistlekit."